JUST IN: Tether is expanding how it pays.
Shareholders can now choose to receive dividends in Tether Gold (XAU₮) a clean signal that tokenized gold isn’t just “a store-of-value narrative” anymore, it’s becoming a payout rail.
Why this matters: Tokenized gold as dividends is basically saying: “You can take profits in something that behaves more like a defensive asset,” without leaving the crypto stack or touching banks.
What I’m watching next:
Will other issuers copy this and make tokenized commodities a standard payout option?
Does on-chain gold liquidity deepen enough to support real scale?
How quickly do people rotate between stablecoins, BTC, and XAU₮ when risk sentiment changes?
This is small on paper, but big in direction: real-world assets moving from ‘holding’ to ‘using.’
